Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:35:22 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <3ADDD05A.9F2BB640@acuson.com> References: <XFMail.010417190935.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > Windriver's actions had nothing at all to do with licensing, but a lot > > to do with casting fear, uncertaintly and doubt upon their Linux > > competitors. > > No, that is incorrect. WindRiver (not WinDriver or Windriver </rant>) does plan > on using at least some FreeBSD technologies in some shape or another. But they do not need to buy BSDi in order to use FreeBSD. From my layman reading of the BSD license, you are not required to buy any company in order to use, distribute, modify or profit from FreeBSD. On the other hand, buying BSDi gives you rights to BSD/OS, which is not under the BSD license. WindRiver spent a lot of words talking about why the BSD license allows them to use FreeBSD, but extremely few words on what that had to do with them buying BSDi. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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